Lessons in urban monitoring taken from sustainable and livable cities to better address the Smart Cities initiative

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 90, Issue PB, 2015, Pages 611-622

  Marsal Llacuna, Maria Lluïsa ^a   Colomer Llinàs, Joan ^b   Meléndez Frigola, Joaquim ^b  

^a Department of Architecture and Urban Planning ^*  (Spain)

^b Institute of Informatics and Applications Department of Electrical Engineering Electronics and Automatics   (Spain)

Author keywords

Livable cities; Smart Cities; Sustainable cities; Urban indicators; Urban indices; Urban monitoring

Indexed keywords

MONITORING;

LIVABLE CITIES; SMART CITIES; SUSTAINABLE CITIES; URBAN INDICATORS; URBAN INDICES; URBAN MONITORING;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84922319825     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.01.012     Document Type: Article

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